A sailing holiday is an extremely pleasant experience; you are out in the open air with a good degree of flexibility about what and when you eat and where you go. You have the opportunity to see locations from a different perspective. There is nothing quite like sailing into a sheltered bay and anchoring in the early evening sun, with a beer or a glass of wine and the smell of cooking emanating from the galley.

The atmosphere is relaxed and the pace of life slower than "back home".
You can choose to spend as much or as little time on the boat as you wish, from treating it as a hotel, spending the majority of your time sightseeing, to experiencing a different port every day and rarely stepping off.